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Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
Test assets and a server project
Rational® Test Automation Server projects manage access to your test assets, which are stored in a Git repository. Projects are either public by default or private. Private projects are not discoverable by other users. You can either add your own project or you can request to be a member of another public project.
Managing access to server projects
You might want to add or remove a project member role from your project.

Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Test assets and a server project
  Rational® Test Automation Server projects manage access to your test assets, which are stored in a Git repository. Projects are either public by default or private. Private projects are not discoverable by other users. You can either add your own project or you can request to be a member of another public project.
  - Repository considerations for a server project
    To collaborate with other project stakeholders, you can open test assets from a local clone of the Git repository, pull project test assets from a Git repository, and push changes made to your local test assets to a Git repository. Before you add a project and add a repository to that project, you must consider some information about repositories.
  - Adding details to a server project
    The first step is to add a server project and provide some details about it.
  - Adding repositories to a server project
    You can add repositories to a server project to access the test assets available in the respective repository.
  - Secrets configuration
    If you are working with an API suite and the project test asset contains environment variables that are required for the test runs, you must configure the environment variables as secrets in a secrets collection by using the Secrets tab. Configuring secrets enable the API suite to run correctly on Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Adding users to a server project
    You can add users to your server project so they can access your test assets.
  - Becoming a project member
    You might want to request to be a member of another project. New users without any projects might also want to be a member of an existing project.
  - Managing access to server projects
    You might want to add or remove a project member role from your project.
  - Archiving or unarchiving server projects
    You can archive a project when that project is no longer needed but you want to retain it for future reference. If you do want to use an archived project, you can unarchive it.
  - Deleting server projects
    You might want to delete a project when the project is no longer needed, and you want to free up disk space.
  - Project overview
    After you configure a project with one or more Git repositories and run some test assets, you can view statistics about those test assets.
- Working with Git repositories
  You can add another repository in addition to the existing repositories in your project or edit the repository settings, by updating the credentials, or by removing references to the repository.
- Protecting API test assets by using secrets
  Secrets are key-value pairs that are created for your project in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server under a secrets collection. You can create secrets collections for your project that enable you or members in your project to use secrets at test runtime either in Rational Test Automation Server or in desktop clients.
- Managing an encrypted dataset
  You can use encrypted datasets to limit access to confidential information such as account number or passwords. You can arrange data by an appropriate category so that project members can use datasets more effectively in certain tests and protect them.
- Managing notifications
  IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server provides a feature to display notifications for different events within the user interface (UI) of Rational Test Automation Server. You can configure an SMTP server on Rational Test Automation Server when you want Rational Test Automation Server to send out notifications about the different events as emails to the subscribed users.

Managing access to server projects

You might want to add or remove a project member role from your project.

About this task

As a project owner, you can assign access by specifying a role when you add a user to your project. You can also assign more access or remove access for a user. Roles enable users to perform tasks on project resources such as running tests and viewing test results.

Procedure

Choose the role in a project based on its associated actions.

Option	Description
Owner of a project	All Tester's actions Update, archive, list, and view a project Assign, update, delete, and list user roles for a project Accept new member requests Create, update, and delete a dataset classification in a project Add, update, and remove an encrypted dataset from a classification Update current row for a listed dataset in a project Delete, list and view a report Update, delete, and list a repository in a project Get the test assets from a repository in a project Create, update, delete and list secrets in a project Create, update, delete, and list resource monitoring sources in a project Get the content of a resource monitoring source in a project Register, update, delete, and list resource monitoring agents
Tester of a project	All Viewer's actions List repositories in a project Run a test and create a report Stop a test while running Get the test assets from a repository in a project Get a list of datasets in a project Get the content of a dataset Update the current row for a listed dataset in a project Add, update, and remove an encrypted dataset from a classification Delete a report if you created the report
Viewer of a project	List your own roles on a project List running tests List and view a report List resource monitoring sources in a project Get the content of a resource monitoring source in a project List the resource monitoring agents
Non-member of a project	Request to be a member of a project

Open the project that you own.
From the project details, you can see a list of project members for your project and then add or remove a members role.
Add or remove the member access by using the Menu icon next to each user in the member list.